International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology "Science and Profession - Challenge for the Future" (4 ; 2005)

Mjesto i datum:

Opatija, Hrvatska, 07.-11.09.2005.

Ključne riječi:

female high school students; female athletes

Sažetak:

General attitude toward dieting scale (Bosnar and Ambrosi-Randić, 2004.) was applied on the group of high school female students. From the total of 327 students, the sample was made including all girls not participating in any sport or exercise activity (n=51), all girls participating in combat sports (n=16) and all girls participating in sports with marked aesthetic component (n=40). Canonical discriminant analysis was done showing one function significant at the level p<0.05. The function is defined by eating whatever one wishes, healthy eating habits and diet as a part of healthy life-style at the positive side, and dieting for psychological benefit, buying healthy food, being able to diet easily, and repeated dieting at the negative side. First function discriminate combat sports group at the positive side from sports with marked aesthetic component group at the negative side. The group of subjects not participating in any sport is placed in the middle, being near zero point. It seams that athletes in combat sports developed more acceptable attitude toward dieting than athletes in sports with marked aesthetic component did.